From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS53758 23.128.96.0/24 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 365511F8C8 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2021 23:28:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S238438AbhIVXaV (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2021 19:30:21 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp1.pobox.com ([64.147.108.70]:55762 "EHLO pb-smtp1.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231259AbhIVXaT (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2021 19:30:19 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp1.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B69FFFB60; Wed, 22 Sep 2021 19:28:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=WxBZzX5gwSPUZdbgdo5J1Q1VoUdaTNCK1/1DoT /ycRE=; b=dXkMdQCr6PS4vvFS+yfD4/tYc2vKqCvvH2uZ5K69Jn4WN7BQ2GL234 q4uV+o/VGr06HYbcJUK9K96/dN9z/q6pB/CCf6UADzN8HNm/RecqK5f93tNZeeCU 0sL8opWdjTs9ExyXT3T0E4FgzBx1nIDvuwIBs6LUabYCliQZN9uUw= Received: from pb-smtp1.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F4CBFFB5F; Wed, 22 Sep 2021 19:28:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [104.133.2.91]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BD131FFB5E; Wed, 22 Sep 2021 19:28:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) From: Junio C Hamano To: Ramsay Jones Cc: Jeff King , =?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason , git@vger.kernel.org, Denton Liu Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Makefile: make "sparse" and "hdr-check" non-.PHONY References: <82c3d9fc-32ff-c38a-cb44-873af1fb83d1@ramsayjones.plus.com> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:28:46 -0700 In-Reply-To: <82c3d9fc-32ff-c38a-cb44-873af1fb83d1@ramsayjones.plus.com> (Ramsay Jones's message of "Wed, 22 Sep 2021 20:17:16 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: D6036B14-1BFC-11EC-84E1-62A2C8D8090B-77302942!pb-smtp1.pobox.com Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Ramsay Jones writes: >>> At the heart of my unease is dependencies (or rather the lack) for >>> the 'synthetic object files' *.hco and *.sp. (Also, the addition >>> of even more 'shrapnel' to the build directories - I wrote a patch >>> to remove the useless *.hcc files just after commit b503a2d515e was >>> included, but didn't get around to submitting it). >> >> I don't consider them shrapnel if they're holding useful results. :) > > Heh, yes I am a bit of a curmudgeon! :D We do not necessarily have to have these files immediately next to the corresponding source file. For example, we could give .shrapnel/ hierarchy to *.hco and *.sp files, so that for revision.c and compat/bswap.h, we'd create .shrapnel/revision.sp and .shrapnel/compat/bswap.hco files that will not be so cluttering ;-)